Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this field tomorrow both seem confident of victory, but the Elis' fighting enthusiasm appear to have been dulled by the long ordeal of a week ago. Both physically and mentally the Blue is far off the peak which it reached on the eve of the clash with the Tiger, while Harvard's young team impressed observers with its optimism and cheerfulness as it ran through a skeleton practice today...
...Princeton, meanwhile, the Bulldog, whose precincts Harvard invades on Friday, battled the Tiger booters, Crimson conquerors...
...however, Gaston Doumergue is no Georges Clemenceau, no tiger. He never was of the calibre of Poincare, Foch and Clemenceau-but he survived them. Last winter, when blood spattered the Place de la Concorde, only ex-President Doumergue, as Premier, had prestige enough to save France by organizing a truce which last week had lasted nine long months. Now that his truce must end, how would he end it? With all the fervor of a sterling bourgeois and a passionate Republican, M. Doumergue exhorted Colonel de la Roque not to attempt a Fascist solution of the crisis...
Nobody has ever before been able to get M. Mandel into a Cabinet, yet no French politician has a name more magical among his Chamber peers. Mandel was Clemenceau's greatest henchman, the lynx who did the Tiger's undercover work, much of it dirty. That Georges Mandel accepted last week the obscure post of Minister of Communications was characteristic. Any other portfolio would have suited him as well. With Georges Mandel working for Pierre Etienné Flandin, dopesters conceded him a safe majority when Parliament meets this week. His program, crisp-sounding but sufficiently vague, struck...
...there is indeed much Comfort in that. They have no heavy Burton to bear today, although the Wilde Blackwood is full. Brookings and Mirey ground. Even so Harvard she win as always. This time 19 to ought, same like Princeton, only different. Yale she lose to Tiger 14-6. Holy Cross 27 Brown 0 Dartmouth 10 Cornell 6 Colgate 19 Syracuse...